Condemning revisionist education and revisionist history as it relates to the African-American experience.

This resolution condemns racist education and revisionist history as it relates to U.S. history and African American history. 

The resolution

• condemns racist education on all fronts,
• calls upon Members of Congress to denounce the racist tropes found in Florida’s new African American history standards for elementary and secondary school students,
• pledges to advocate for education that tells the full narrative of U.S. history and African American history,
• rejects the decision to downplay the horror of slavery in the United States,
• promotes the dignity of African American youth by allowing them to learn the accurate historical account of their ancestors and the hardships they faced,
• rejects the decision to rewrite history to ingrain white supremacy into the minds of children, and
• urges the Florida Board of Education to immediately reverse its decision and promulgate new African American history standards that are free of inaccurate racist tropes and the assertion that Black people could find slavery beneficial.